Octavius 34.7

Summary: They taught that only souls survive and move into new bodies.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:48–49

solas animas uolunt et perpetuo manere et in alia noua corpora saepius commeare.

they hold that the souls alone both remain forever and pass again and again into other new bodies.

Source: CSEL 2:48–49 · Karl Halm, ed., M. Minucii Felicis Octavius; Iulii Firmici Materni Liber de errore profanarum religionum, CSEL 2 (Vienna: Gerold, 1867), 1–56 · Latin text: K. Halm (CSEL 2, 1867), digitized by Open Greek and Latin, University of Leipzig (csel-dev), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text: As printed in CSEL 2. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Latin text of CSEL 2; made independently of existing English translations.
Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made) · Divided there by chapter only.
Topics: Eschatology

Minucius Felix, Oct. 34.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/34/7/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 34.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/34/7/).